Alternate realities, or false memory? The Mandela Effect explained

Is it the Berenstein Bears, or the Berenstain Bears? Does the Monopoly Man have a monocle? Did Nelson Mandela die in prison?

It turns out we are very prone to a particular kind of memory error—remembering things we never experienced!

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0:00 - Titles
0:12 - Overview
1:12 - The Mandela Effect
2:53 - Visual memory capacity
4:34 - Flashbulb memories
5:37 - False memories
7:37 – Memory schemas
8:45 - What causes the Mandela Effect?
10:53 - Wrap-up
11:33 - Outtro

Sources:

[frost]

I’ve watched thousands of Mandela Effect videos. I am a firm believer in the Mandela effect. I’ve watched many arguments against the Mandela Effect and still believe in it. HOWEVER SIR, you have made the absolute best argument against the Mandela affect I have EVER seen. It pisses me off because every person. Who argues against the Mandela Effect comes up with stupid stupid arguments just screeching “it’s just misremembering bro you are just scared that your brain is misremembering”
And I always think they are just so bad at debunking it.
However the mental exercises you did in this video was one of the best arguments against it so bravo to you. It’s not often that I compliment someone on their argumentation skills.
I still believe in it for other reasons but you made a great video. I’ll make sure to reference it often to make sure I take into account what you said in it I like to get all points of view when coming to a conclusion.

[hagerty]

I liked the bit at the end where you were eating the Captain Crunch!

[berranari]

Most people have good memories. The problem is that people are committing the wrong information to memory in the first place.

[Loch]

We tend to make connections without even fully looking at the subject like mental autocorrect

[WCDavis-clsi]

My g/f said YESTERDAY that the Mandela effect is just our brains filling in the extra pixels, or whatever you just said, while I'm over here here trying to figure out which star-porting island the Statue of Liberty is on. And now I find this.

[enesavc]

Ryan, these are getting better and better. Is there a limit in your creativity?

[berranari]

This is the best video on the subject I have seen.

[Not_Info]

I love how people inmediately point out "AlTeRnaTivE REeaLitIes" as an explanation when they remember something different from another person. It baffles me, but the Mandela Effect subreddit is highly entertaining.

[sunilkumarnair]

Thanks for another great video. This was so fun and informative to watch.

[jackdarby]

The contents of the other channel, where were you teaching at the time?.

[ellensholisticheaven]

Didn't Nelson Mandela have a big procession when he got out of prison? That might be what we are remembering???

[quillexham]

Great video! I have a video request, can you do a video on morals and ethics?

[JinKee]

Would it be a smart idea for Fruit of the Loom to choose a logo that was unusually hard to remember?

[ralphkotwica]

The bush thing was just his guilt showing because of what he had known

[frost]

How the hell does this guy have a British accent only when saying Mandela

[dublindog]

I'm gonna give a new effect for all of you and want to know what you think! Please comment! Today, I was celebrating the Braves sixth National Division Title, and looked up if Ronald Acuna Jr. could be the next 40/40 guy with 37 homers... and what did I get but an Article saying he has 39 homers with 10 games left... I was like what.... they have 13 games left and he only has 37 homers right now? What the heck? I read it three times and now I can't find it again! What is going on...a time loop? a Mandela effect? This blew my mind and I don't believe in stuff like this. If By Sunday this is true... I will be in complete shock!

[SandyDiVa]

Yeah, but mandela effects are typically things we memorized like quotes & lyrics. Why would one line or one word, the same one for everyone, be different from what we remember? I remember phone numbers from 40 years ago and the lyrics to my fave songs. Yet some of those songs are different now. I saw so many new and old images of donald duck…yet he’s yellow sometimes and i never saw a yellow donald duck. Or pink daisy or yellow nephews for that matter, but they all exist.
Someone said your tests were a good example but they arent, they are SHORT TERM MEMORY tests. Mandela effects are from our LONG TERM memory. So these tests are irrelevant. All of these experiments in memory ignore the long term. 9:49 thats the only argument that makes sense but we call these manscuses because most people didn’t see or hear the examples presented.

I get that youre playing devils advocate here, but its not false memory. Its not inaccurate memory. Our memories are real. We have even seen things change, on air, in front of our eyes…with the chat seeing it, too.

[timoneill]

I know phonology is most of the explanation, but I wonder if there's any connection to Americans who think they standardly say/hear a [t] in "button, " especially when they insist they've never heard it pronounced with a glottal stop.

[V_B-mxiy]

So It's not reality that's changing it's my memory that's changing? That's just lazy bud. First how is a reality created that can support an observer with a memory. Its seems to me that reality is still a mystery

[JinKee]

We all died and this is a simulation based on our browser history. We hallucinate "facts" about the world because we are neural network Large Language Models trained on the dataset from the real world because that was the dataset that worked. But the simulation had to be altered to slow down the rise of AI and give us a chance to study the hard problem of AI Safety.